Laura Israel

Laura Israel cut her teeth editing awardwinning commercials and music videos while still a film student at NYU By the time she graduated she had formed her own editorial company Assemblage Her client list included John Lurie Lou Reed Patti Smith Keith Richards Sonic Youth New Order Ziggy Marley David Byrne artists Laurie Simmons and Robert Frank The films she edited with Frank have screened all over the world and won many awards WINDFALL her debut doc premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won top prize at Doc NYC A NY Times Critics Pick the paper dubbed it Urgent informative and artfully assembled WINDFALL is distributed by First Run Features and Ms Israel was named in Filmmaker Magazines 2011 25 New Faces of Independent Film